A Midsummer Night's Dream - Helena's Love Speech

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How happy some o'er other some can be!
Through Athens I am thought as fair as she.

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But what of that? Demitrius thinks not so;
He will not know what all but he do know:

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And as he errs, doting on Hermia's eyes,
So I, admiring of his qualities:

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Things vile and base holding no quantity,
Love can transpose to form and dignity:

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind;
And therefore is wing'd cupid painted blind:

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Nor hath Love's mind of any judgement taste;
Wing and no eyes, figure unheedy haste:

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And therefore is Love said to be a child,
Because in choice he is so oft beguiled.

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As waggish boys in game themselves forswear,
So the boy Love is perjured everywhere:

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For ere Demitrius looked on Hermia's eyne,
He hail'd down oaths that he was only mine;

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And when this hail some heat from Hermia felt,
So he dissolved, and showers of oaths did melt.

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I will go tell him of fair Hermia's flight:
The to the woods will he to-morrow night

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Pursue her; and for this intelligence
If I have thanks, it is a dear expense:

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But herein mean I to enrich my pain,
To have his sight thither and back again.